Damn, I was hoping by now someone who knew what the hell they were doing would come along and help ya. What happens when you try to play something with a media player? Like an MP3 with XMMS?

Hi there,, this is how I install Gnome on Slackware 8.1

1. Mount the Slack 8.1 cd
2. go into the /mnt/cdrom/slackware/gnome directory
3. run (as root) pkgtool, and select install packages from current directory.
4. select the packages you want to install
5. after the install there should be a file called xinitrc.gnome in /etc/X11/xinit (remember that dir). So just do this (as a normal user, not root).
cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.gnome ~/.xinitrc
6. startx will start gnome now ;)
7. Voila!

For the Sound, just do the following (as root)
chown root:users /dev/dsp
chown root:users /dev/mixer
chmod 770 /dev/dsp
chmod 770 /dev/mixer
and VOILA!

Good Luck!
RefriedBean

Sound still doesn't work tried your method.

For GNOME i got it installed . But im having problems wif Nautilus. SO right now it's very inconvenient. I also don't have any icons on my desktop because of Nautilus. You can see my problem in the other thread named "Nautilus error".

A well, any other ideas for me sound ? ^_^

Thanks very much

Hi there!
Please try the following as root.
yes > /dev/dsp
That should produce a loud beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
To kill that off press Ctrl+C

If you hear the beep, then your sound your sound works :)
If you don't, try doing
yes > /dev/dsp0
or
yes > /dev/dsp1
if that works, just make a symlink to /dev/dsp from the device that beeped (ln -sf /dev/dspX /dev/dsp).

I find it very strange that the commands I listed above does not work for you, I've always did it like that since Slack 7.1. Have you tried loggin in and out? Sometimes that helps. If it still gives you permission errors, do the following (as root)
chmod 666 /dev/dsp
chmod 666 /dev/mixer
chmod 666 /dev/audio
That should do the trick :)

As for the nautilus error, try installing the following app from the slackware 8.1 cd.
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/slackware/ap/cdparanoia-IIIalpha9.8-i386-1.tgz
It should help.
Remember, don't run gnome and nautilus right after installing that packages,, try running ldconfig (as root) first, and the log out, and back in (not in the X terminal, I mean COMPLETELY out and back in ;) )

Good Luck
RefriedBean

HI RefriedBean!

I got Nautilus to work! Now i've got my proper desktop setup ^_^ finally...

BUt why don't the documentation state the use of ldconfig? DOes the install package assume that the OS itself will update the libraries bindings or what?

Unfortunately i can't seem to get my sound working.I tried your method. Before startx i loaded up the module emu10k1 and when gnome starts GMIX 3.0 popped up showing model of my sound card.

But thanks again for getting Nautilus to work...

http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/dsp_devfsd.txt

Don't know if that will help, but you can give it a shot.